Dining bliss

[flemmings]

I don't like vinegar and oil on salads. Vinegar is OK, sort of, but it needs oil to cut it and all kinds of oil hate me. So my dressing of choice is avocado, French mustard, and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, whisked together and poured over greens. Still needs some kind of starch to absorb it, still has a strong sense of 'because it's good for me.' Not something I make as comfort food, in short. But last night I threw in a handful of sliced strawberries (the ones I keep sweetened in a bowl to put on the morning's cereal.) OMG. Changes everything. I shall have strawberry avocado salad for dinner as long as the fresh strawberries last.

Yesterday I also made my stock stir fry-- broccoli, celery, mushrooms, chard stems, marinated tofu, vast quantities of ginger and garlic, all mixed at the end with cooked white rice. This keeps the quantities of rice down and binds the thing together. Then froze three containers of it so that I didn't eat it all at a sitting, which I seemed likely to do. Had the last bowl from the pot for dinner tonight, along with the strawberry avocado salad, with toasted walnuts and a bowl of fat-free Greek yoghurt (all of the body, none of the calories: a true find.) Food of the gods, I tell you.

Didn't even need the wine that the allergy season forbids me having. Now /that/'s a good dinner.

Comments

[joasakura.livejournal.com]

figs are also delicious. I like a green salad with chopped figs and a little bit of soft cheese (like the laughing cow wedge thingies)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Figs hate me too. And my fillings, but mostly my digestion. ^^;; Soft cheese OTOH...

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Sounds delicious!!

You shame me. I have gotten completely off eating healthy and need to get back to it.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Healthy is cheap, is mostly why I do it.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Omnomnomnomnom!

That's an interesting dressing, I may have to try it out! Lately I've been lazy and just using some low-cal catalina dressing. =x It's like ketchup for salad!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of catalina dressing. Appears it has tomatoes in it, which makes it a no-no for me. All the best foods are nightshades, alas.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

ooh that IS an interesting combination. I might try that sometime. Thank you for sharing. ^_^

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

A regular supply of avocadoes is the basis of a happy life.

[deepfryerfire.livejournal.com]

I regularly do a strawberry/avocado salad that also incorporates sliced roma tomatoes, canned mandarin slices, and if we feel like it, a little bit of canned chicken. (Canned because it shreds into thin strands and mixes in.) I add olive oil to mine, but you could easily get by without it.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

If you mash the avocadoes, olive oil would seem to be a work of supererogation (www.thefreedictionary.com/supererogation), as my father used to say, heart-friendly though it is. But the chicken is a nice touch. I'm all for one bowl meals, lacking a dishwasher as I do.

[unearthly-calm.livejournal.com]

The stir-fry and salad both sound amazing. My idea of fancy home cooking is pouring taco sauce over stir-fried vegetables and rice ^_^;;;